2007-09-27 15:45:16 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
The basic answer is yes.
A person can have a single cancer, that metastasizes (spreads) to different areas.
A person can develop 2 totally unrelated cancers.
A person can even develop 2 different types of cancer cells at the same site!
I had 2 types of cancer forming my tumour, one compleatly encapsulating the other - a bit like a hard boiled egg with the yolk encapsulated by the white.
2007-09-27 16:33:22 · answer #1 · answered by Tarkarri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When a person's cancer originates in one organ (e.g. lung), and metastasizes to other organs, (e.g. liver, bones, brain), it does not mean he/she then has 4 types of cancers. Medically, he is considered to have lung cancer which has spread to other organs (so really, only one type of cancer).
Having said that, it is possible for a person to have more than one type of cancer at the same time. Although this is quite rare, and the probability becomes extraordinarily small for 3, 4 or more different types of cancer (that doesn't orginate from the same cancer type).
2007-09-27 16:14:54 · answer #2 · answered by Cycman 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe that it not different types but the same cancer that just spreads. My mum died two weeks ago of kidney cancer which spread to her liver and lung. But if you did have two or three types it would be incurable anyway. once its in more than one spot it is very hard to treat successfully
2007-09-27 20:16:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Some people have more than one type of cancer that they battle. Some also develop secondary cancers after the first cancer has been successfully treated. I know three kids who beat their sarcoma but have since developed leukemia (one died, one is in treatment, and the third is in remission from both sarcoma and leukemia).
There is also a disease that predisposes children to many different types of cancer . . called Fanconi anemia. This is a hereditary disease and most children or adults with this disease are at risk to develop MDS, Acute myeloid leukemia, liver, and head and neck, esophageal, gastrointestinal, vulvar and anal cancers.
Fanconi Anemia
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000334.htm
2007-09-27 16:23:44 · answer #4 · answered by Panda 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I work with a guy who's mom died last year she had 5 or 6 different kinds of cancer
2007-09-27 15:48:24 · answer #5 · answered by scott w 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is. My father started with bladder cancer and died with from a different type of cancer that was in his lungs and not due to smoking.
2007-09-27 15:53:53 · answer #6 · answered by Mignon F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually you have the main cancer , for example lung cancer . It then travels through the body forming secondary cancers and beyond . My grandfather died in 2004 with bone , liver and lung cancer . So yes it is possible to have more than one cancer in your body but usually it stems from the primary cancer that was diagnosed .
2007-09-27 15:50:39 · answer #7 · answered by i_wanna_be_your_babygirl_tonite2 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-20 04:46:10 · answer #8 · answered by gustavo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, one of my friend's grandma has 2 different cancers right now. It's really serious. For all you people, be thankful you don't.
2007-09-27 15:50:42 · answer #9 · answered by Party Girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. My father had lymph, bone and lung cancer. All at the same time.
2007-09-27 15:56:29 · answer #10 · answered by Mim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋